what's the point?

[Roland]

The reason I would play a ladder character is, like CelticHound said, a new economy.


Methraton

As soon as the ladder season is over (what, a few months, tops?), and a new one begins, all your precious "new economy" characters will get dumped into the garbage with the rest of the world. :P So you get a "clean" economy for as long as the ladder season lasts, but no more. After that, you either make a NEW ladder character (and so on, and so on, endlessly) for the next season, or remain with your old ladder character (now no longer a ladder character) and put up with the current crap economy.

Unless Blizzard takes ALOT more efforts towards cleaning up the current economy, it won't be worth it in the long run. :P

Though I guess a few months of "clean economy" is better than none at all. But that raises the next question: how long before the new, "clean" economy becomes trashed like the current one?